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"The clever part is that it changes the question from, Who should I believe? to, What should I do? After all, the physical world is unaffected by our beliefs. It reacts only to our actions."
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Greg Craven"Knowing how to combat your own confirmation bias helps remove that huge handicap that we all share—the tendency for our beliefs to drift toward what we want to be true."
"The clever part is that it changes the question from, Who should I believe? to, What should I do? After all, the physical world is unaffected by our beliefs. It reacts only to our actions."
"Even depressions end. Climate chaos may not."
"In any disagreement between what we want to be true and what is true, physical reality wins every time."
"Try to keep in mind one of the fundamental aspects of science: letting the evidence form belief rather than belief select evidence."
"New breakthrough technologies can make it easier, but weve already got, right now, everything we need to accomplish the task of transforming our energy economy away from fossil fuels. Except the willingness."
"I was left with a great idea gutted by critical examination. But thats good. Thats how we make ideas better—by trying to poke holes in them and then finding ways to fix the holes."